Demand is increasing for scientists and engineers yet high school enrolments in science and maths are going down. It makes sense to plug spatial into some wider initiatives to educate and enthuse young people.

National ICT careers week is run in July by the Australian Information Industry Association and the Australian Computer Society. It combines the activities of 90 organisations, organises bus tours for careers advisers and is widely publicised.

STELR ’Science and Technology Education Leveraging Relevance’ is a national education initiative to show school students how science, technology and engineering are relevant to Australian life by focusing on climate change. It talks about maths and science â€“ how can they possibly do it without spatial?